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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/18/dl1802.xml
How to Handle Hamas
[Telegraph-UK] Editorial - Israel, the West and other Arab governments have rushed to offer financial support to the Fatah regime in the West Bank while isolating Hamas. Revolutionary violence is not, as Marx thought, the product of economic despair; more often, revolutions happen at times of rising prosperity and rising aspirations. By lavishly funding the Fatah administration, the international community might recreate the resentment against a corrupt elite that drove many Palestinians into voting Hamas in the first place.